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Coals future darkens around the world

2013-09-19 14:36:38| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: The future of coal is getting darker. Economic forces, pollution concerns and competition from cleaner fuels are slowly nudging nations around the globe away from the fuel that made the industrial revolution possible. The U.S. will burn 943 million tons of coal this year, only about as much as it did in 1993. Now its on the verge of adopting pollution rules that may all but prohibit the construction of new coal plants. And China, which burns 4 billion tons of coal a year -- as much as the...

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Buffett Says Coal's Slide to Be Permanent, Yet Gradual

2013-07-26 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: Coal use in the U.S. will continue to fall though the slide will be gradual as electric utilities switch to cleaner alternatives over years and years, billionaire Warren Buffett said at an event in Indiana this week. Coal will gradually decline in importance, and of course when natural gas prices get low enough you have a big switch over, Buffett said July 22, according to a recording posted online by WFYI, a public radio station in Indianapolis. Coal plants are producing about 38 percent of...

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Coal's slipping grip: Death of a Georgia coal plant

2013-07-02 14:37:13| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Daily Climate: The smokestacks, more than 800 feet tall, barely peek from behind the tall pines just across from Chester Allen's farm, but to him the damage from Plant Yates' coal is plain to see. "Dang-near everything rusts out early over here," said Allen, as he walked with his dog, Bogey, past a rusty disc harrow on the farm where he's lived for more than thirty years. His drag, steel gates, fence posts, barn roof -- all rusted. Equipment this new -- 15 years old, he reckons -- shouldn't be this rusty. And...

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Coal's slipping grip on energy in the U.S

2013-07-01 19:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mother Nature Network: Tiffany Mellers jogs behind her two daughters as they pedal their bikes along a ribbon of packed sand along Long Island Sound. They are good girls, Mellers said. They deserve a healthy life. Behind them, a 500-foot tall candy-stripe smokestack, a fixture of Bridgeports waterfront for nearly five decades, rises in the distance. A third generation of residents is now growing up in its shadow. But today this old giant is merely a vestige of this regions coal-fired past. New England is virtually...

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